That is incredible stuff. DTS is an even bigger idiot than I gave him credit for. I doubt it, but maybe there is now a chance CP3 takes less money and walks away.
Isn't Ferry the dude who decided to give Larry Hughes a max contract as LBJ's sidekick? Anyway just because you came from the Spurs it doesn't mean that you will become the next Buford or Pops. If you were really that good the Spurs wouldn't have let you go without a fight.
Ferry was terrible in Cleveland and I laughed when Atlanta hired him, but he's off to a very good start with the Hawks. Let's see what happens there.
It's not quite that simple. There are other things that count against team salary in addition to player contracts. First, in order to maximize cap space let's assume that Atlanta renounces all of their free agents, refuses all option years and renounces all exceptions. ATL has 3 players (Horford, Williams, Jenkins) at a total salary of $18,483,800. Atlanta has the 17th pick and the 19th pick in the upcoming draft. If they actually use those picks then the drafted players immediately begin counting against the cap at the NBA Rookie scale amounts. Those amounts would be $1,302,600.00 and $1,181,800.00. That would leave ATL with only 5 roster spots filled so they would be charged an "Incomplete Roster" cap hold of $490,160 for each of the remaining 7 unfilled roster spots. That would be an additional $3,431,120 against their cap. If you total all of that up then their cap is now at $24,399,320.00 Assuming that the cap does rise to $60M as predicted that would leae the Hawks with $35,600,680 in cap space. In order to sign both Howard ($20.5M) and Paul ($18.7) to max deals they'll need $39.2M in cap space. So they would be sitting $3,599,320 short of what is needed to make max offers. Atlanta can certainly try and trade their picks or trade Williams or Jenkins to free up additional cap space. One thing to keep in mind is that for each of those picks or players that they trade and take back nothing then they'll also incur an additional $490,160 Incomplete Roster caphold because they are opening up another unfilled roster spot. Because of that Incomplete Roster caphold the effective savings from trading any of those picks or players is as follows: Williams $4,734,840.00 ( $5,225,000.00 - $490,160) Jenkins $768,640.00 ( $1,258,800.00 - $490,160) 17th pick $812,440.00 ( $1,302,600.00 - $490,160) 19th pick $691,640.00 ( $1,181,800.00 - $490,160) You could move some combination of the above to free up the additional $3.43M in cap space. In fact, they'd be in a very similar position as the Rockets currently are trying to move Robinson in order to acquire Howard. More importantly, once Atlanta is done they would have Horford, Paul, Howard and whatever they didn't have to trade of the combination of Williams, Jenkins, 17th pick 19th pick. They wouldn't be able SnT Smith or Teague because they would have been renounced. They would have also lost Bird Right on all of the their FAs. Furthermore they would only have the room exception ($2.5M) and minimum player exception to use to fill out more than half of their roster. Paul and Howard certainly could take small paycuts ala Wade, Bosh, James but basically you are in the same position. They'd have Horford, Howard and Paul but the new CBA makes it much harder to fill in the other players around them.
